Caption:
Battleship California Rises To Surface -- The Navy department, in relating the full extent of salvage operations at Pearl Harbor, revealed that, of 19 craft sunk or damaged on December 7, 1941, only three vessels have been written off as lost, and more than 50 percent salvage has been achieved from these ships. This bow-on shot shows the main deck of the battleship California breaking water. She was sunk in the Jap raid on Pearl Harbor, December 7. May 24, 1943. (Photo by Official U.S. Navy Phot